V8SuperCar Nissan Altima revealed Oct 30th

BGTV8 · 10-25-2012, 04:12 PM

The first of four Nissan Altima's to compete in the 2013 V8SuperCar championship will be revealed via a Nissan Australia Youtube channel next Tuesday, Oct 30th 10:30am Eastern Australia time - will around 14-18 hours earlier in the US

The is a teaser already out there - found at .....

Nissan To Reveal V8 Supercar

V8Supercars will visit Circuit of the Americas in Texas May 17-19, 2013

MC · 10-29-2012, 10:15 PM

http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index....rcar-unveiled/

sig11 · 10-30-2012, 08:22 AM

Pretty awesome looking Altima. I'd drive that!

fuct · 10-30-2012, 11:26 AM

DR_ · 10-30-2012, 12:25 PM

I now know who I will be cheering for at the Austin race next year.

Vichtz · 10-30-2012, 12:45 PM

Holy SH*T! Next mod for the Z...

Tazicon · 10-30-2012, 12:58 PM

Why did they use an Altima? Things that make you go hummmmmmm

sig11 · 10-30-2012, 01:09 PM

What else would they use? The Maxima?

Tazicon · 10-30-2012, 01:51 PM

Any car other than Altima..............lol Maximas are probably to big but their Ininiti brothers come with a V8. Why use a car that comes with nothing bigger than a 3.5 V6 but mostly has a 2.5 4 banger for a V8 Super car?

BGTV8 · 10-30-2012, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Tazicon

Any car other than Altima..............lol Maximas are probably to big but their Ininiti brothers come with a V8. Why use a car that comes with nothing bigger than a 3.5 V6 but mostly has a 2.5 4 banger for a V8 Super car?

It is all about wheelbase (the V8 regulations specify the wheelbase) and frontal area (to limit drag). The Altima was also selected as it is a new model being launched here and Nissan Oz can see that they will get a bigger marketing bang-for-buck launhcing with a new model than they would with the Maxima.

Nissan Australia has factory marketing support from Japan to launch the Altima as the Maxima has never really taken off and has not sold in significant numbers here and the Altima is slightly smaller and intended to take on the most popular segment here which is Altima sized cars (think Mazda 6, Holden Cruze (Holden is the GM brand in Oz), Toyota Camry, Opel Insignia, VW Passat, Hyundai I45 and Kia equivalent plus a whole host of others). I suspect that these cars are "sub-compact" in the US market - here they are the most popular segment as the larger (full-size in Oz-marketer speak) cars are no longer selling in the numbers they used to). Indeed, sales of full-sized cars are dropping rapidly - smilar to the US I suspect.

We can expect the Maxima to be phased out and replaced by the Altima in this market.

The decision to select the Altima wsa a marekting-based decision by the suits at Nissan. Simple as that.

red6spd · 11-01-2012, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tazicon

Any car other than Altima..............lol Maximas are probably to big but their Ininiti brothers come with a V8. Why use a car that comes with nothing bigger than a 3.5 V6 but mostly has a 2.5 4 banger for a V8 Super car?

The Maxima Infiniti brother comes with a V8? The Maxima has no siblings over at Infiniti.

m4a1mustang · 11-01-2012, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tazicon

Any car other than Altima..............lol Maximas are probably to big but their Ininiti brothers come with a V8. Why use a car that comes with nothing bigger than a 3.5 V6 but mostly has a 2.5 4 banger for a V8 Super car?

Ummm... marketing!

Why use a Toyota Camry or Ford Fusion (both I4 and V6) in NASCAR... where they run V8s?

Marketing!

Red__Zed · 11-01-2012, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Ummm... marketing!

Why use a Toyota Camry or Ford Fusion (both I4 and V6) in NASCAR... where they run V8s?

Marketing!

Race the cars you want to sell

m4a1mustang · 11-01-2012, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Red__Zed

Race the cars you want to sell

Win on Sunday sell on Monday!

sig11 · 10-30-2012, 01:56 PM

but infinity != nissan!

10-25-2012, 04:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
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sig11 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,294 Drives: 09 370Z Red Sport-MT Rep Power: 18	Pretty awesome looking Altima. I'd drive that!

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sig11 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,294 Drives: 09 370Z Red Sport-MT Rep Power: 18	What else would they use? The Maxima?

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